Alone on the Inside

The Outside World

This is for Daniel and Ivana. Thank you both for your friendship and encouragement. 

This song is dedicated to all the lonely people across the world tonight. Every. Single. One.

The fireworks you can hear are from new year celebrations in London, as I was singing thought I’ll keep them in…

May 2022 bring all of you, without exception, joy, blessings and peace 💫

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Are you there (NYE 2022)

a tribute to immortality
for the late great george harrison.
playing guitar like george is something every guitarist should learn.

ekki maas: give me love

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The debut EP from New York band Public Practice, Distance is a Mirror, is a confident, juried testimony of love steeped in dark optimism. Dry, dead pan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves—songs snapping like rubber bands—seesawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. With contradicting references as overt as Talking Heads (without the shoulders), but as specific as Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra (with some polka dots), the band is carrying a funky torch that does not get lit too often. 

The four members of Public Practice—singer Sam York, guitarist Vince McClelland, synth/bassist and vocalist Drew Citron, and drummer/programmer and producer Scott Rosenthal—are no strangers to song writing. A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project WALL and local pop band Beverly. Public Practice backs their ambitious song writing with serious chops, their live shows already pulling them into the sharp foreground of a scene growing all too warm-and-fuzzy.

Sam York’s lyrics reflect the city and it’s contradictions—they are personal, funny, cryptic and surreal, but never truly pessimistic, rotating around an individual’s toxic but symbiotic relationship with perception. Songs like the sarcastically-titled “Foundation” deep-fry Beach Boys guitars in ice-cold-but-somehow-funky Scritti Politti grooves. Add a dead pan David Byrney vocal, and Public Practice remind us again how integral it is to use honesty and self-reflection to bring some of life’s double-standards to light.

By the end of the short and bitter-sweet 4-song EP, punctuated by Sam York’s sign-off of “no you can’t take it back now,” Public Practice anchors themselves as a new band with wisdom like their influences, bringing songs distinctly fresh as they are familiar. Public Practice will privately change your mind about where guitar music is going. Tired of the familiar? Seeing dots? Wake up! 

Recorded and produced by Public Practice. Mastered by Carl Saff.

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Public Practice - Fate/Glory (From the "Distance is a Mirror" EP)

ekki maas: california girls

ekki maas: america

for the late great mark hollis

ich hab ja gesagt, ich mach ne coverversion, wenn einer stirbt, der eine verdient. mark hollis von talk talk. ich erinnerte mich daran, dass ich zu der "colour of spring"-platte in meinem wg-zimmer laut mitgesungen habe und mich an den schönen langen gesangspausen und den langsamen akkordwechseln erfreut habe. ein großer mann, der auf klarinette stand.  bernd keul hat ihm auf seinem roli-block eine oder zwei spendiert.
teilt es gerne.

ekki maas: i don't believe you

for the late great doris day.
ich hab ja gesagt, ich mach ne coverversion, wenn eine stirbt, die eine verdient.
doris day hat mit rock hudson die ganze welt veräppelt, als die beiden bürgerliche heteropärchen spielten. das wissen die meisten. weniger bekannt ist dass sie mit 17 erst einmal sängerin wurde.

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